Rear facing baby safety seat

ABSTRACT

We have invented a rear facing baby safety seat for use in automobiles that includes a reinforced steel and plastic head protector assembly to decrease the likelihood of injury to the child in the event of an accident. That a head protector, like a “helmet” be reinforced by steel and be a part of the baby seat and that neither one be used separately. That the baby seat and head protector, be joined together by a one half inch square solid steel bar, fastened permanently on the head protector, that slides up and down inside a square steel frame fastened permanently to the baby seat, with adjustment holes and steel pins to adjust for the proper height and width of the baby&#39;s head and body.

[0001] REAR FACING BABY SAFETY SEAT, with adjustable steel slide in rearof the baby seat that goes up and over the top of the head protector“baby helmet” All of which will be reinforced by steel on both baby seatand the head protector, then will be concealed by a durable plastic.

[0002] The adjustable steel slide shall be to adjust for the heighth ofthe baby, from baby;s seat to the top of the baby's head, with holes tokeep it at the proper heighth, with steel fastner pins. With the frontof the helmet coming down in front to about one-fourth of an inch abovethe baby's eyes and on the sides one inch below the baby's ears.

[0003] The helmet shell would be lined, the complete interior with astyrofoam sponge material, with additional replaceable soft material,adhesive of one side, to stick to the helmet linning, to adjust for thecircumference of the baby's head.

[0004] The baby seat will be made of a strong durable plastic andreinforced with steel, containing the slide for the head protector inthe rear of the baby seat, which will be covered with a strong durableplastic material. Then a fire proof removable cloth material, padded forcomfort, shall cover the entire interior and all edges of the baby seat.

[0005] The harness shall be made of a strong material similar toharnesses for baby seats and automobile seat belts, and fastened infront to make sure the baby's shoulders and body fit firmly to the babyseat, with the front fastner far enough from the throat to prevent achance of choking. Then slots will be made for use of safety beltsalready installed in most vehicles, slots on bottom of seat and also ontop of arm rests on the sides of the baby seat, so either may be used,in tests the top ones tend to be the best.

[0006] The purpose of this safety product, is to prevent a babys headfrom going toward the rear end of the car, at a terrific rate of speed,then coming to an abrupt stop, as is the case when a baby is strapped ina regular rear facing baby seat, when an automobile is rear ended byanother automobile. This almost undoubtedly causes some type of closedhead-injury, resulting in brain injury of some type all the way fromvery minor to very severe and permanent brain injury, and even death.

[0007] An infants head is extremely heavy compared to the rest of itsbody, and the neck muscles are very weak.

[0008] This happened to my grandson, in a horrible rear end automobileaccident, when he was only a few weeks old and now he is eleven yearsold. He has been slow in knowledge development, because of his brainstaking such a shock, when rear ended by a fast moving automobile, he wasproperly fastened in a rear facing baby seat. His physical growth andappearance is almost perfect for his age, but he is very mentalyhandicapped, with his speech, short term memory, can't read, write,count, add, or do any thing that requires proper brain fundamentals. Itis so sad, that he must spend the rest of his life, so handecapped, andto think that a rear facing baby seat in case of a rear end accident, isalmost a suicide seat.

[0009] I have enclosed a picture of the crude seat we have been usingfor testing, it will stop such things as this happening just strapped ina regular rear facing baby seat it will break the dummy's neck everytime.

[0010] I hope and I pray this patent can be issued, so other babies willnever in the future have to suffer a complete lifetime of un-neccessarymental retardation or other impairments, plus the trauma, when it can beso easily prevented.

[0011] In most ways I could not be too upset if some one or companysteals or use's my idea, as long as they donated most of their profitsto the National Brain Injury Asso. or the National Association forthe-Mentaly Ill or any organization that does good for defenslessinfants, strapped in a baby seat.

What we claim as our invention:
 1. That a rear facing baby seat bere-inforced by steel. That a head protector, like a “helmet” bere-inforced by steel and be a part of the baby seat and that neither onebe used separately. That the baby seat and head protector, be joinedtogether by a one half inch square solid steel bar, fastened permanentlyon the head protector, that slides up and down inside a square steelframe fastened permanently to the baby seat, with adjustment holes andpins to adjust for the proper heighth of the baby.